Senate Bill 144

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Title AN ACT relating to promotional sampling of distilled spirits.
Bill Documents Bill
Bill Request Number 1246
Sponsor G. Tapp
Summary of Original Version Amend KRS 243.0305 to make the hours and days of operation for a souvenir retail liquor licensee subject to local ordinance; amend KRS 244.050 to allow retail drink, retail package, and souvenir retail liquor licensees to give a customer 3 distilled spirit samples per day rather than 2 samples under a sampling license; permit a licensed distiller to acquire a sampling license; limit a distiller to providing up to 3 separate 1/2 ounce complimentary samples of its distilled spirits per day to each customer during regular business hours on the distiller's licensed premises or at a retailer's licensed premises; require retail licensees to sell the distilled spirits used for a complimentary sampling event at no more than the retail licensee's normal selling price; prohibit a distiller from using its sampling license on its distillery premises unless it also holds a souvenir retail liquor license; permit the retail licensee to bill on a per-event basis in the usual course of business; authorize distiller licensees to give a consumer who is touring the distillery for educational purposes one complimentary sample of up to 1/2 ounce of un-aged product manufactured at the distillery premises; enable distiller licensees to offer consumers branded nonalcoholic promotional items of nominal value in conjunction with a distillery tour or a complimentary sampling event.
Index Headings of Original Version Alcoholic Beverages - Distillers, free samples of distilled spirits, allowance of with sampling license
Distilled Spirits - Distillers, free samples of distilled spirits, allowance of with sampling license
Licensing - Distiller licensees, free samples of distilled spirits, allowance of under a sampling license
Local Government - Souvenir retail liquor licensees, hours and days of operation, local ordinance, establishment by
Sunday Closing - Souvenir retail liquor licensees, hours and days of operation, local ordinance, establishment by
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02/13/09
  • introduced in Senate
  • to Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations (S)
02/24/09
  • reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
02/25/09
  • 2nd reading, to Rules
03/02/09
  • posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, March 2, 2009
  • 3rd reading, passed 30-7
03/03/09
  • received in House
03/06/09
  • to Licensing & Occupations (H)
03/10/09
  • taken from committee
  • 1st reading
  • returned to Licensing & Occupations (H)


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